My Secret Heart

Chapter 31

MAGGIE'S POV:

Today was the day of the funeral. We were having it at an old church Louis use to go to, at two o'clock this afternoon.

I sat in my room on my bed in a black fitted dress with black heals. I clenched my heart locket Louis had given me on my 16th birthday. I always wore it. No matter if it didn't match, I always had it on.

I moved my hair to the side and unclipped the back of the necklace. I opened it and looked at the two pictures on each side. The left was a picture of me and Louis when we were eight, we were hugging each other real tight, that was our first Christmas together. And the second picture was of me and Louis the day he made it through X-Factor. He had his lips pressed against my cheek, while I had a huge smile spread on my face, and my eyes filled happy and sad with tears.

Just these two pictures brought me back to tears and memories.

I heard a knock on my door and quickly wiped my eyes and told them to come in. It was Niall. He looked at me with sad eyes as he realized I had been crying again. He sat down next to me and put his arms around me.

"I hate seeing you like this. I know he meant so much to you, but he would want you to be happy." He told me as he rocked me.

"I know Niall, but I can't believe he is gone. I thought we had so much more time together and so many more memory's to make."

"That's why you make the most of what you have, because you never know when you're going to lose it. That's also the reason you don't commit suicide, it may put you out of your misery, but it brings the ones you know, to so much hurt and loss." He paused and started speaking again. "I want you to know that even though Louis is gone now, you will always have me. I know I can't compare to your and Lou's relationship, but I would like to know I can at least be something as special to you, as he was."

"Niall you mean just as much to me as Louis does."

"Good because you mean the world to me." He said kissing my nose.

He looked down at his watch, "Oh we better get going." He said standing up taking me hands to help me to my feet.

"Niall, I don't want to go."

He looked at me confused and then understood, "Maggie, look. I know this is going to be hard for you and it always will be, but you got to go and pay your respects. He would want you to come, just like you would want him to."

"I just...fine let's go"

We got to the funeral home and I saw his casket sitting there. I gripped onto Niall's hand tight and fought back the tears.

We signed the guest book and Niall looked at me. "You want to go say something to him?"

"I already did in the hospital."

"Come on, I will come with you." He put his arm around my waist as I took a tight grip on the hem of his shirt. We walked slowly up to his casket and I laid my eyes on his cold, pale body. I felt my body start to shake, as Niall pulled me closer to him. We just sat there in silence.

"I love you Louis." I spoke and then the tears started falling hard. I buried my head in Niall's side and we took our seat listening to the rest of the service.

We went out to the grave yard and they placed his casket in the ground. The whole rest of the day was tears, tears, and more tears. Niall was with me through all of it, comforting me.

THREE DAYS LATER:

Niall was taking me out for dinner, he wouldn't tell me where, but I was supposed to dress nice.

I slipped on a white spaghetti strap, ruffled dress, black leggings, a black leather jacket, and tan, ankle height, tie up boot-heals. I left my hair natural, adding a few curls with a curling wand. I applied natural makeup and walked out into the living room to find Niall dressed in a nice tux.

"You look beautiful" he almost whispered, as he took my head in his hands, kissing my nose.

We hopped in the car and soon arrived at a little lake side with dim hanging lights and a picnic cloth laying on the green grass.

"Niall? What where are we?" I asked as I got out of the car.

"Our dinner, for tonight" he said smiling taking my hand in his.

We sat down on the picnic cloth and started eating the spaghetti he had made for us. We talked and laughed the whole night through.

I loved Niall with all my heart. Sometimes it didn't even seem like we were dating, he always acted like just his best friend. That's what I loved about him, I could tell him anything and know it would be safe kept. He always picked on me, not in the way it was mean, but in the way I was like his little sis or something. I loved the feeling, knowing I had someone here for me that cared. I felt special with him. I felt like all I needed was him.

"I think I am getting over Louis." I spoke, as we now stood next to the lake skipping rocks on the water.

"Don't be all sad and depressed all the time, but don't forget about him." He reminded me.

"I won't. That would be impossible." I told him.

"I'm thankful for Louis making you happy and feel loved your whole life, but now it's my turn. It's my turn to make you feel special and loved, to make you live a happy life, with no regrets." He took my hands in his. "Maggie, I love you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you, I want to start a family, to die happily in love with you, make and share memoires with you. And most of all love you forever and a day. I tried my best to make you feel like a princess, my princess, but now I want you to be my queen."

He bent down on one knee and dug in his pocket and pulled out a box. He opened it and in it was a beautiful ring. "Maggie, will you marry me?"

Tears filled my eyes and my heart started racing fast. I shook my head fast, trying to realize what just happened and find the words I wanted to say. "Yes Niall. Yes, yes, yes a billion times yes!"

He stood up and I ran into his arms as he spinned me around in the air. He crashed his lips onto mine as he still kept spinning me around. He sat me down and a huge smile was on his face, as well for me along with happy tears.

"I love you so so much!" he told me intertwining our fingers.

"I love you too!" I said standing onto my tippy toes to kiss my fiancé once again.

~THE END~